"If we can save one person a day, then we're doing a good job," said the hot line operator.

There seemed to be a distinct separation between the people who felt themselves visionaries and the line operators facing the customer.

"The power of using the line operator, the hourly guy, to talk to a customer, you cannot believe it," he said.

Mada's network is completely independent from any other fixed line operator in Jordan.

This makes the process much safer for the finishing line operator.

They have given the cruise line operators until the end of 1992 to sharply reduce the smoke emissions.

The porting process is based on a peer-to-peer file exchange between fixed line operators.

Both countries, he said, had plenty of highly trained, skilled line operators, technicians and production engineers.

'I'll speak to the party on the line operator.'

Hot line operators, coping with a heavy volume of calls that may have been related to publicity about Tiesha's case, took cursory information.